If you have auto_incremnt id in the table you can do the following: delete from table a where id > start_id and id =< end_id
Or you can delete by timestamp. delete from table a where date between 'start_date' and 'end_date'. On 11/6/05, Brian Dunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to delete all but the newest 100 records from a table. I > have a timestamp field. I can't figure out how to do this in a single > SQL statement - can anyone help? Thanks! > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
